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Joy is communicative, social, open-hearted, and desires expression; grief is secretive, silent, solitary, and seeks to retire into itself. The truth of this remark will surely not be denied by anyone who has even a moderate acquaintance with life. There are men so constituted that under the stress of emotion, the blood rushes to the surface, making the inner emotion outwardly visible; others are so constituted that the blood flows backward, seeking the inner parts of the chambers of the heart. A somewhat similar relation exists as to the mode of expression, between joy and grief.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Søren Kierkegaard", "slug": "soren-kierkegaard", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard" }, "book": { "title": "Either/Or", "slug": "eitheror", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/soren-kierkegaard/eitheror" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 167, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Either/Or#Shadowgraphs", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:01:54" }, { "id": "0afd2539-8d9a-49b8-83b3-b144a50805b6", "slug": "i-was-depressed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/a-thousand-acres/i-was-depressed", "text": "I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Smiley", "slug": "jane-smiley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley" }, "book": { "title": "A Thousand Acres", "slug": "a-thousand-acres", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/a-thousand-acres" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "Possessions", "slug": "possessions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/possessions" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley#A_Thousand_Acres_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:25" }, { "id": "07089f83-bb76-4385-89d9-3f7d104b3315", "slug": "i-am-thirty-five", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/the-age-of-grief/i-am-thirty-five", "text": "I am thirty-five years old, and it seems to me that I have arrived at the age of grief. Others arrive there sooner. Almost no one arrives much later. I don’t think it is years themselves, or the disintegration of the body. Most of our bodies are better taken care of and better-looking than ever. What it is, is what we know, now that in spite of ourselves we have stopped to think about it. It is not only that we know that love ends, children are stolen, parents die feeling that their lives have been meaningless. It is not only that, by this time, a lot of acquaintances and friends have died and all the others are getting ready to sooner or later. It is more that the barriers between the circumstances of oneself and of the rest of the world have broken down, after all—after all that schooling, all that care. Lord, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me. But when you are thirty-three, or thirty-five, the cup must come around, cannot pass from you, and it is the same cup of pain that every mortal drinks from. Dana cried over Mrs. Hilton. My eyes filled during the nightly news. Obviously we were grieving for ourselves, but we were also thinking that if they were feeling what we were feeling, how could they stand it? We were grieving for them, too. I understand that later you come to an age of hope, or at least resignation. I suspect it takes a long time to get there.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Smiley", "slug": "jane-smiley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley" }, "book": { "title": "The Age of Grief", "slug": "the-age-of-grief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/the-age-of-grief" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "growing up", "slug": "growing-up", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/growing-up" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley#The_Age_of_Grief_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:24" }, { "id": "706fcac0-f0b6-4d7e-92cc-1e42f09aac41", "slug": "a-lion-shorn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-thompson-seton/wild-animals-i-have-known/a-lion-shorn", "text": "A lion shorn of his strength, an eagle robbed of his freedom, or a dove bereft of his mate, all die, it is said, of a broken heart; and who will aver that this grim bandit could bear the three-fold brunt, heart-whole? This only I know, that when the morning dawned, he was lying there still in his position of calm repose, his body unwounded, but his spirit was gone — the old King-wolf was dead.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ernest Thompson Seton", "slug": "ernest-thompson-seton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-thompson-seton" }, "book": { "title": "Wild Animals I Have Known", "slug": "wild-animals-i-have-known", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-thompson-seton/wild-animals-i-have-known" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 53, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "freedom", "slug": "freedom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom" }, { "name": "animals", "slug": "animals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Thompson_Seton#Wild_Animals_I_Have_Known_(1898)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:09" }, { "id": "fda95f2d-2e77-4e98-8fbe-44205b36e36c", "slug": "on-the-morning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kerri-ni-dochartaigh/thin-places/on-the-morning", "text": "On the morning of my thirty-fifth birthday, I woke up to an newspaper article entitled 'Mass extinction of species is happening in Ireland'. The article stated that a third of the species groups examined are threatened with extinction, predominantly due to , , and . A number of species are, in fact, '', and without urgent action being taken immediately, they will simply disappear entirely from this island. That morning, I spent so many hours researching what we have already lost — what we risk losing any day — that I nearly wept with the sadness of it all. 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To be upon the beach yourself, and see the long waves coming in; to know that they are long waves, but only see a piece of them; and to hear them lifting roundly, swelling over smooth green rocks, plashing down in the hollow corners, but bearing on all the same as ever, soft and sleek and sorrowful, till their little noise is over.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "R. D. 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Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life, not a breath to stir the dead leaves fallen on my heart's Spring.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "R. D. 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Nothing and no-one could make me happy. Nothing and no-one could make me sad. I was tough. 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His own sadnesses, on the other hand, slosh about in his life in a low-key way, formless and self-consuming.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lorrie Moore", "slug": "lorrie-moore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore" }, "book": { "title": "Birds of America", "slug": "birds-of-america", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore/birds-of-america" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "music", "slug": "music", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lorrie_Moore#%22Beautiful_Grade%22", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:18" }, { "id": "77d39caa-fa3a-4eeb-b6c0-4245fc964b9a", "slug": "every-arrangement-in-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore/birds-of-america/every-arrangement-in-life", "text": "Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lorrie Moore", "slug": "lorrie-moore", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore" }, "book": { "title": "Birds of America", "slug": "birds-of-america", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorrie-moore/birds-of-america" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "life", "slug": "life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lorrie_Moore#%22Agnes_of_Iowa%22", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:18" }, { "id": "f4e5aa87-a95d-4526-8e9f-2033af52a5e4", "slug": "i-spent-my-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/i-spent-my-life", "text": "I spent my life learning to feel less.\n\nEvery day I felt less.\n\nIs that growing old? 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While there seems to be no floor to sorrow.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cormac McCarthy", "slug": "cormac-mccarthy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy" }, "book": { "title": "Stella Maris", "slug": "stella-maris", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/stella-maris" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#Stella_Maris_(2022)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:31" }, { "id": "c2132bbd-17a3-448b-8611-71949a3fa3e2", "slug": "even-though-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace/even-though-life", "text": "Even though life is hard, even though it is sometimes difficult to smile, we have to try. Just as when we wish each other \"Good morning,\" it must be a real \"Good morning.\" Recently, one friend asked me, \"How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural.\" I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on, we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can't let just one channel dominate us.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thich Nhat Hanh", "slug": "thich-nhat-hanh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh" }, "book": { "title": "Being Peace", "slug": "being-peace", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thich-nhat-hanh/being-peace" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "smiling", "slug": "smiling", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/smiling" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh#Being_Peace_(1987)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:25" }, { "id": "f9b4fe7e-dbc4-4d67-8414-d2dbfe6dae8a", "slug": "what-the-eye", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names/what-the-eye", "text": "What the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "José Saramago", "slug": "jose-saramago", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago" }, "book": { "title": "All the Names", "slug": "all-the-names", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/all-the-names" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 185, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "ignorance", "slug": "ignorance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ignorance" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago#All_the_Names_(1997)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:13" }, { 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BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:05" }, { "id": "cad2b8dc-9305-4357-90dc-10b1bea96247", "slug": "but-here-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/but-here-are", "text": "But here are wine and beautiful young girls,\n\nBe wise and hide your Sorrows in their curls,\n\nDive as you will in life's mysterious sea,\n\nYou shall not bring us any better pearls.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Omar Khayyam", "slug": "omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam" }, "book": { "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 45, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "pleasure", "slug": "pleasure", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pleasure" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#Le_Gallienne,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1897,_1902)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:01" }, { "id": "43af86ef-5252-4575-9f39-67ec6ab1cb8b", "slug": "any-mind-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin/any-mind-that", "text": "Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Harriet Beecher-Stowe", "slug": "harriet-beecher-stowe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe" }, "book": { "title": "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "slug": "uncle-toms-cabin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, 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"name": "Toni Morrison", "slug": "toni-morrison", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison" }, "book": { "title": "Sula", "slug": "sula", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/sula" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison#Sula_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:00" }, { "id": "e40ea3c1-ab31-4ddc-bda1-1814b487042d", "slug": "considering-his-position", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/tess-of-the-durbervilles/considering-his-position", "text": "Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Hardy", "slug": "thomas-hardy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy" }, "book": { "title": "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", "slug": "tess-of-the-durbervilles", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/tess-of-the-durbervilles" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy#Tess_of_the_d'Urbervilles_(1891)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:02" }, { "id": "fd3fa56e-fc0f-4827-b02b-80fbff1b51c9", "slug": "she-seemed-to-say", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited/she-seemed-to-say", "text": "She seemed to say \"Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?\"That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, this magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Evelyn Waugh", "slug": "evelyn-waugh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh" }, "book": { "title": "Brideshead Revisited", "slug": "brideshead-revisited", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh#Brideshead_Revisited_(1945)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:56" }, { "id": "08406cf6-6915-40ca-965e-3f404091d7fd", "slug": "by-the-use", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer/by-the-use", "text": "By the use of the language of sorrow I had for the time being obliterated my sorrow—so powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Gene Wolfe", "slug": "gene-wolfe", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe" }, "book": { "title": "The Shadow of the Torturer", "slug": "the-shadow-of-the-torturer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "language", "slug": "language", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer_(1980)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:23" }, { "id": "c3e1c082-f5c5-4fc9-9d46-5f105f8fef3d", "slug": "he-loved-her", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/speaker-for-the-dead/he-loved-her", "text": "He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Speaker for the Dead", "slug": "speaker-for-the-dead", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/speaker-for-the-dead" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:43" }, { "id": "2453c93c-9ecf-4306-841d-16e5811e5021", "slug": "as-it-is-so-strangely", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/as-it-is-so-strangely", "text": "As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nikolai Gogol", "slug": "nikolai-gogol", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikolai-gogol" }, "book": { "title": "Dead Souls", "slug": "dead-souls", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "joy", "slug": "joy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/joy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol#Dead_Souls_(1842)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:37" }, { "id": "a2d02222-407c-404c-96ac-fc39cfe48aa6", "slug": "there-is-something", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/benjamin-hoff/the-te-of-piglet/there-is-something", "text": "There is something in each of us that wants us to be unhappy. It creates in our imaginations problems that don't exist - quite often causing them to be true. It exaggerates problems that are already there. It reinforces low self-esteem and lack of respect for others. It destroys pride in workmanship, order, and cleanliness. It turns meetings into Confrontations, expectations into Dread, opportunities into Danger, stepping stones into Stumbling Blocks. It can be seen at work in grimaces and frowns, which pull the muscles of the face forward and down, speeding the aging process. It contaminates the mind behind the face with its negative energy and spreads outward, like a disease. And then it comes back, projected and reflected by other unhappy minds and faces. And on it goes.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Benjamin Hoff", "slug": "benjamin-hoff", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/benjamin-hoff" }, "book": { "title": "The Te of Piglet", "slug": "the-te-of-piglet", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/benjamin-hoff/the-te-of-piglet" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Hoff#The_Te_of_Piglet_(1992)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:29" }, { "id": "f73f874b-5412-41bb-91cb-ae87628a08d6", "slug": "first-about-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world/first-about-the", "text": "First, about the mind. You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That this is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "haruki-murakami", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami" }, "book": { "title": "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", "slug": "hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" }, { "name": "hope", "slug": "hope", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami#Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World_(1985)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:01" }, { "id": "e4073ceb-65cb-4340-8f44-2e41d5ff94ec", "slug": "it-is-invariably", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/it-is-invariably", "text": "It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "F.Scott Fitzgerald", "slug": "fscott-fitzgerald", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald" }, "book": { "title": "The Great Gatsby", "slug": "the-great-gatsby", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 104, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Chapter_6", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:57" }, { "id": "a498f009-a914-4762-b001-37eac27494fb", "slug": "while-i-listened", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/while-i-listened", "text": "While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me. I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood.\n\nThe words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few! And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?\n\nI cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge. 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The most we can do is exploit our memories of his excellence.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Cheever", "slug": "john-cheever", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever" }, "book": { "title": "The Journals of John Cheever", "slug": "the-journals-of-john-cheever", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever/the-journals-of-john-cheever" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cheever#The_Journals_of_John_Cheever_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:17" }, { "id": "2113b5f4-87f6-45a8-b00d-72df1da1ce3a", "slug": "to-be-pathetic", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/to-be-pathetic", "text": "To be pathetic when we cry, we must cry without wanting to and without knowing it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "honesty", "slug": "honesty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honesty" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:10" }, { "id": "72ee543a-34ed-42a5-b757-1d5d3765c25a", "slug": "a-sad-soul", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/a-sad-soul", "text": "A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "Travels with Charley in Search of America", "slug": "travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Travels_With_Charley:_In_Search_of_America_(1962)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:03" }, { "id": "f7aabe54-8cd9-4363-a456-3626906b5fb2", "slug": "he-told-me-how", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden/he-told-me-how", "text": "He told me how a man, a real man, had no right to let sorrow destroy him. He told me again and again how I must believe that time would take care of it. He said it so often that I knew he was losing.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Steinbeck", "slug": "john-steinbeck", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck" }, "book": { "title": "East of Eden", "slug": "east-of-eden", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/east-of-eden" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 283, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "time", "slug": "time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/East_of_Eden_(novel)#Part_3", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:00" }, { "id": "d20d6ebf-ff10-4fd8-825b-8c75515738b0", "slug": "oh-well-memories", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/the-complete-stories/oh-well-memories", "text": "\"Oh well, memories,” said I. “Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don’t let yourself in for things like that, it’s not for you and it’s not for me. It only weakens one’s present position without strengthening the former one — nothing is more obvious — quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn’t need strengthening.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Franz Kafka", "slug": "franz-kafka", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka" }, "book": { "title": "The Complete Stories", "slug": "the-complete-stories", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/the-complete-stories" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#The_Complete_Stories_(1971)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:53" }, { "id": "ecea8cde-10a2-4735-ba66-6d72d0634560", "slug": "unhappiness-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-deptford-trilogy/unhappiness-of-the", "text": "Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robertson Davies", "slug": "robertson-davies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies" }, "book": { "title": "The Deptford Trilogy", "slug": "the-deptford-trilogy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-deptford-trilogy" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Deptford_Trilogy#(1975)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:14" }, { "id": "b5df7b36-56d2-42fb-ab85-a7cbb00e1b63", "slug": "the-best-thing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white/the-sword-in-the-stone/the-best-thing", "text": "\"The best thing for being sad…is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake in the middle of the night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "T. H. 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I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Palm Sunday", "slug": "palm-sunday", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/palm-sunday" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "laughter", "slug": "laughter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/laughter" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Palm_Sunday_(1981)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:41" }, { "id": "fab7de7e-f924-470d-afd6-92c2d563a3d9", "slug": "of-all-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/of-all-the", "text": "Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Cat's Cradle", "slug": "cats-cradle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" }, { "name": "longing", "slug": "longing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:37" }, { "id": "e3acbd73-c393-4ea5-8cdb-7048dd95d3ce", "slug": "she-could-never", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady/she-could-never", "text": "She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. To \"do\" – it hardly mattered what – would therefore be an escape, perhaps in some degree a remedy.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Henry James", "slug": "henry-james", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james" }, "book": { "title": "The Portrait of a Lady", "slug": "the-portrait-of-a-lady", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-james/the-portrait-of-a-lady" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "work", "slug": "work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_James#The_Portrait_of_a_Lady_(1881)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:23" }, { "id": "f767c7b0-f48b-4b86-a381-9413ebce07aa", "slug": "it-seems-to-me-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet/it-seems-to-me-that", "text": "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. 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That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn\".", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "T. H. White", "slug": "t-h-white", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white" }, "book": { "title": "The Book of Merlyn", "slug": "the-book-of-merlyn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white/the-book-of-merlyn" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "knowledge", "slug": "knowledge", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/T._H._White#The_Book_of_Merlyn_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:12" }, { "id": "6bd63fbf-23cd-426b-a0ee-1ec7c21dff92", "slug": "cool-your-sorrow", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/cool-your-sorrow", "text": "Cool your sorrow — we've the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart — water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Frank Herbert", "slug": "frank-herbert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert" }, "book": { "title": "Dune", "slug": "dune", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "beauty", "slug": "beauty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_2:_Muad'Dib", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:48" }, { "id": "a75ca657-1e2c-434f-861a-14860d539a7d", "slug": "the-sun-hides", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/the-sun-hides", "text": "The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true—not true, or undeveloped. ‘With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Herman Melville", "slug": "herman-melville", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville" }, "book": { "title": "Moby-Dick", "slug": "moby-dick", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 473, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "truth", "slug": "truth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth" }, { "name": "sadness", "slug": "sadness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#The_Try-Works_(96)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:41" }, { "id": "92eb71b8-86a5-4659-9592-ba1d95333a19", "slug": "among-the-tales", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-silmarillion/among-the-tales", "text": "Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. 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The one was deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly came. The other had now achieved a unity of its own; but it was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony, but rather a clamorous unison as of many trumpets braying upon a few notes. And it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J. R. R. 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